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Submission + - Scandal in Wikipedia: high profile users involved in paid-editing (cnet.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: A new Wikipedia scandal: two high profile users, one of them board member of Wikimedia UK were caught doing edits for personal profit. It was also discovered that they ran a SEO business related to Wikipedia.
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Submission + - What should we do about Wikipedia's porn problem? (larrysanger.org) 3

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Larry Sanger
Larry Sanger writes: "In 2011, the Wikimedia Board committed to installing a "controversial content" filter even weaker than Google's SafeSearch, as proposed by the "2010 Wikimedia Study of Controversial Content." Since then, after growing opposition by some Wikipedians, some board members have made it clear that they do not expect this filter to be finished and installed. Nevertheless, as TFA makes clear, Wikipedia continues to host an enormous amount of extremely gross porn and other material most parents don't want their kids stumbling across. And this content is some of the website's most-accessed. Nevertheless, children remain some of Wikipedia's heaviest users. Jimmy Wales has recently reiterated his support for such a filter, but no work is being done on it, and the Foundation has not yet issued any statement about whether they intend to continue work on it."

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